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Social Media Isn't All that Social
Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest, “social” media doesn’t serve to make us any more social at all.
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Podcast: Is Evangelicalism Suffering from a “Sanctification Gap”? (Matthew Bingham)
Matthew Bingham discusses how evangelicalism teaches us to walk with God.
Counsel for Those Experiencing Loneliness Not by Choice
Jesus is a available to everyone, even those who feel isolated, excluded, and rejected.
Comprehension: Understanding What Scripture Says (Women of the Word Episode 5)
Jen Wilkin discusses the first of three steps in the Bible study process—comprehension. She walks through how this underappreciated step is a key building block to studying the Bible well.
Dig into Historic Creeds and Confessions on ESV.org
Learn more about these how these truths can shape and motivate the lives of all who follow Christ.
John Piper lists why we should affirm others.
Finding Biblical Contentment as a Widow
Is it possible for a widow find authentic contentment?
Following Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life
In this video, pastor Jeff Vanderstelt calls us to look beyond the special "church" events that so often dominate our calendars and start focusing on reaching the lost in and through our everyday lives.
Grateful for Experiencing Grace
Grace is not an impersonal force or a divine quality to be studied only in the abstract.
The Singlemindedness of Purity
A double-minded woman is two-minded; she is divided between two ways of thinking, and, as a result, she is ruled by competing options.
Making Sense of the Failures of Godly Leaders, Past and Present
We are sinners and saints at the same time. It’s part of the human condition. That’s an important thing to grapple with and understand and accept that that’s a reality.
Podcast: The Surprising Health Benefits of Going to Church (Rebecca McLaughlin)
Rebecca McLaughlin discusses how church attendance has positively fought against the levels of loneliness, depression, anxiety, and addiction in the world.
What Those Who Care for the Hurting Need Most
This book is not for one who is necessarily suffering physical trauma or depression. Instead, it is a book for everyone.
Podcast: How Men Can Combat the Friendship Famine (Drew Hunter)
Drew Hunter explores how men can strengthen and keep deep and meaningful friendships and investigates why they're fading in the first place.
Kristen Wetherell answers questions from around the world about things like keeping your Bible reading time fresh and making time for God’s word as a busy parent.
Dave Kraft lists a few steps that will help us on the road to identifying our purpose.
Preview: ‘Be Thou My Vision’ by Jonathan Gibson
Today's episode is a special audio preview of Jonathan Gibson's new book, Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship.
The Cure to Our Frustration in Caring for the Hurting
Let's discuss the emotions we often feel when caring for the hurting.
5 Resources to Help You Start the New Year Off Right
The beginning of a new year is a great chance to find fresh reading material to both challenge and encourage you in your walk with Christ.
Preface to the Theologians on the Christian Life Series
Series Preface Some might call us spoiled. We live in an era of significant and substantial resources for Christians on living the Christian life. We have ready access to books, DVD series, online material, seminars—all …
We need to zoom out and broaden our view of worship, like seeing the span of the ocean from the sky. Because whether or not we’re aware of it, we are women who worship—all day, every day.
If we’re going to defeat the sin of discontentment, we need to be able to spot its lies.
To Be Human, To Read the Bible, To Live
James M. Hamilton Jr. discusses the challenges of being human, bearing the image, striving to know God, to find truth, and to help others find their joy, satisfaction, purpose, meaning, and life in knowing God through his Son, Jesus Christ, by the power of the Spirit.
Preview: A Special Excerpt from ‘R. C. Sproul’ by Stephen Nichols
A special one-hour excerpt from ‘R. C. Sproul: A Life’ by Stephen J. Nichols, focusing on the final days of Sproul’s life and the lasting legacy of his ministry.
Hurtful Ways to “Help” the Hurting
No one wants another treatment, ointment, acupuncture reference or a diet that is 100% guaranteed to heal them.
Creative Ways to Practice Hospitality That We Might Be Overlooking
When the Bible talks about hospitality, it is very much talking about relieving people’s needs by providing.
Sandra Peoples advises the ways that every church can make disability families feel they belong, are welcomed, and loved.
The Battle of Accepting Our Limits
This gospel meditation explores the idea of being worried and confused with the Christian life, offering an invitation to turn to God when life doesn't make sense.
Your Sanctification Is the Work of the Trinity
The entire work of sanctification is Trinitarian in that as we are changed by the Spirit, we are changed through the Spirit pointing us to the Son.
Adapted from Expository Apologetics: Answering Objections with the Power of the Word by Voddie Baucham.